Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism
172 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, and all these auxiliary departments which, behind the lines from time to tim ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MODERN HEROISM 173 Sergeant John Carmichael’s squad mates would have disagreed with him: We were on ...
174 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Graham proposed that the Army practice of requiring the written attestation of two eye-witnesses for any ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MODERN HEROISM 175 forming part of a Dominion or colonial force regardless of race or color.^35 The ...
176 AWARDED FOR VALOUR a zeppelin crossed the coastline. The decision was therefore made to make ‘acting under the authority’ of ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MODERN HEROISM 177 I read those out? ‘Rear Admiral Everett, Admiralty, considers it logical to award ...
178 AWARDED FOR VALOUR A hero does not save the wounded; he kills the enemy. Nurses do not kill the enemy. Therefore, nurses cou ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MODERN HEROISM 179 Admiral Everett fought a desperate rearguard action against the consensus of the ...
180 AWARDED FOR VALOUR of the posthumous principle that more than anything else revealed his ignor- ance on the subject. He mana ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MODERN HEROISM 181 The meeting moved fairly quickly through the changes embodied in the new draft. T ...
182 AWARDED FOR VALOUR of those who were eligible for the award, closing off any other possible claimants. It passed with little ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MODERN HEROISM 183 it impossible for a woman to qualify. Everett and the other misogynists of the pa ...
184 AWARDED FOR VALOUR of the war would be far different, but the Victoria Crosses earned would be won by Haig’s rules. The warr ...
Ten Conclusion: The New Hero in Action, 1940–2006 T he Great War killed the Victorian ideal of heroism along with the Victorian ...
186 AWARDED FOR VALOUR the majority of the test cases that defined the nature of heroism taking place in the first 50 years of t ...
CONCLUSION: THE NEW HERO IN ACTION, 1940–2006 187 it during the Second World War, mechanized forces garnered only a small share ...
188 AWARDED FOR VALOUR The other factor reflected the tightening of the regulations. Instigated in part by Admiral Everett’s des ...
CONCLUSION: THE NEW HERO IN ACTION, 1940–2006 189 During the Great War the overall average of VC winners wounded in action ran a ...
190 AWARDED FOR VALOUR The majority of the Second World War VCs – 107 – went to forces originating in the United Kingdom, and of ...
CONCLUSION: THE NEW HERO IN ACTION, 1940–2006 191 the case of Haig, but during the Second World War this became standard practic ...
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